Eight persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Jhenidah, a farmer, who was injured in an attack by his friend Saturday, died at Sadar...
FE Report | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh's trade restrictiveness is one of the highest in the South Asian region, a World Bank report said Monday."While high-income countries still have the world's lowest tariff barriers, many developing countries are converging rapidly. Bangladesh still maintains a very restrictive...
BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua): China's customs tax revenues nationwide stood at 489.6 billion yuan (71.6 billion US dollars) from January to June this year, up 35.6 per cent year on year, the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) said...
WASHINGTON, Jul 14(AFP): US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama vowed Monday to pull out the bulk of US forces from Iraq by mid-2010 -- but insisted on keeping "a residual force" to fight remnants of Al-Qaeda in the country for...
GSTAAD, Switzerland, July 14 (AFP): Victor Hanescu won his first career title as he took advantage of a tired Igor Andreev to claim a 6-3, 6-4 victory in 70 minutes at the Gstaad Open here Sunday.A rainy weekend stayed dry...
IT was shocking to read a newspaper report that the default loans in the country's banking system, are fast rising. Why is this happening? It appears that the default loans are soaring because the borrowers are big businessmen who are...
NOWADAYS share business in Bangladesh is all the craze. Those who are aware prefer to invest in the capital market as return on investment in shares is more than that from the deposits kept in the banks. All the shareholders...
Adviser for Primary and Mass Education Rasheda K Chowdhury Monday urged all students, youths and juvenile to take a vow to say no to drug, reports BSS.Rasheda K Chowdhury made the appeal while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a...
'Secretarial Science and Office Management' subject has been omitted from the higher secondary-level curricula in general and madrasa education with effect from 2009-10 academic session, an official announcement said Monday, reports UNB.The caretaker government (CG) took the step as a...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
The country's leading industrial enterprises prefer to watch the gas supply situation before making any further investment that declined in fiscal 2007-08.According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the growth of private sector investment fell by 4.13 percentage points...
The High Court (HC) granted Monday two-month interim bail to detained Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and former minister Motiur Rahman Nizami in the Gatco graft case in which former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is the principal accused.A special court that is trying...
A freshers' reception, organised by the Bangladesh Shishu Academy and sponsored by Meril Baby Line of Square Toiletries Ltd, was held in the city recently, says a press release.More than 3,000 students, who have just been admitted into different departments...
Left-wing parties in India have launched a national campaign against a controversial India-US nuclear deal, reports BBC.The communists stopped supporting the government last week in protest at its decision to push ahead with the deal to meet India's soaring energy...
A special court that deals with high-profile corruption cases Monday exempted the detained former minister Mohammad Nasim from personal attendance during trial of the WorldTel scam case, reports UNB.Granting the application filed by Nasim, Judge Shahed Noor Uddin fixed July...
Mohammad Asif has been confirmed as the player who tested positive for a banned substance during the Indian Premier League, the IPL has announced.The IPL, though, hasn't revealed the drug that was found in the sample that Asif, who played...
TOKYO, July 14 (AFP): The dollar rose against the yen in Asian trade today.The dollar firmed to 106.51 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade from 106.25 in New York late Friday. The euro gained to 1.5878 dollars from 1.5832 while slipping...
FE Report | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks fell Monday snapping two straight gaining streak amid low turnover.Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) began on downbeat from the very outset and the negative trend continued towards close of the trade.The market moved to the negative...
FE Report | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
Premier Bank Training Institute concluded its training course for the newly recruited trainee junior officers (cash) recently.The bank's Managing Director Khondker Fazle Rashid was the chief guest of the concluding session.Premier Bank Additional Managing Director Mokhlesur Rahman, SEVP and Head...
MOMBAY, (Internet): India's business outlook index is at an all-time low at 65 index points after 5 per cent dip from the previous quarters, says TeamLease quaterly employment outlook for the quarter July-September 2008.The business outlook index points have shown...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
The government is contemplating introducing Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) card for the urban poor, reeling under soaring prices of essentials, ahead of the Ramadan month.The price monitoring committee in a meeting recently asked the food and disaster management ministry to...
THE HAGUE, Jul 14 (AP): The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.The charges filed Monday include masterminding attempts to wipe out African tribes in Darfur with a campaign of murder, rape and deportation.Prosecutor...
Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) approved the charge sheet of the case filed against Arafat Rahman Koko, youngest son of former premier Khaleda Zia, allowing the investigation officer (IO) to submit it to the court for trial, reports BSS.The ACC lodged the...
FE Report | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
A new organisational set-up, the Macro Fiscal Wing, under the finance ministry will start operation from next month to assist the ministry with the country's macro-economic forecasts and analysis, ministry officials said Tuesday."Establishment of the new wing in the Finance...
President Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed have greeted Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei on his 62nd birthday, reports UNB.In a message of felicitation to the Sultan, Dr Iajuddin has expressed his hope that the close relations and friendship...
The cement industry is currently engaged in an aggressive $6 billion capacity expansion. More than 4 million metric tons of new clinker capacity is expected to come on-line this year. An additional 10 millionmetric tons of new clinker capacity is...
KABUL, Jul 14 (AFP): Militants killed nine NATOsoldiers in an assault on a remote base in northeasternAfghanistan, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on foreign forces fighting the Taliban insurgency.The attack on the military outpost Sunday came as...
Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium will host its first Test match for 35 years when England tour India in November and December this year, after the ECB unveiled a proposed itinerary of seven one-day internationals and two Tests that it has received...
COX'S BAZAR, July 14 (UNB): Landslide, triggered by heavy rains, killed two members of a family at Himchhari here Monday morning.The dead were identified as Amina Khatun (70) and her granddaughter Jannatara (14).Sources said the two were buried alive when...
Tripti Industries de-listed from | 2008-07-15 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock ExchangeThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has de-listed (discontinued the trading of the shares) the company following its amalgamation with the Olympic Industries Limited with effect from today (Tuesday).Monthly get-together of DSEmembers' todayThe monthly get-together (lunch) of DSE members...
World demand for cement is forecast to grow 5.3 percent per year to 3.6 billion metric tons in 2012. Gains will be driven by strong increases in cement consumption in the developing countries of the world, fueled by rising income...
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